So much is written for young! women and girls about education, the age of love, home-making, health, appearance, and social duties, that one would almost infer that no woman grows old. Of course, she need not—in spirit—but, as always, the flesh is weak. Father Time rings out the years with stealthy, unfailing hand. The! seed becomes the bud, the bud the} flower, and aH too soon withered} petals strew the seared green earth. Not until age is upon us do we realize either its blessings or its ravages. Up to 30 we rest content, for youth is strong and takes deal of abuse without flinching. But from 30 to 40 nature etches our history on our faces, figure and mind, and when we pass the fortieth milestone we wake up to realities. Then it is we either live in abundance on the summit mature womanhood, or glide ignominiously into old age.
Wnere raz SHoe Pincues.
Neither grey hairs nor years are a drawback to woman. Half the burden of age is accountable to looking old—the other half to feeling old. As some one once <e-marked, there is nothing wrong in being 40—the fault lies in looking -40. The woman of this age is more experienced, more competent, more sane, than her younger sister, and could easily hold her own if she combined with her competence he alertness of mind, smartness vf dress, and charm of manner of the latter. Her task will be easiest if at 30 she has looked ahead to 40. But even if she has lived a day at 'a time, she can work wonders by a Kittle careful attention to a few essentials.
If, as is often asserted, we are judged by our appearance, it is probably the face more than anything else which first attracts or repels. It is a key to character, and to the observer with insight, strength is more important in the face than beauty. According to an old proverb (or rather, perhaps, an Irish bull) "to be a beauty one must commence with her grandmother." Heredity no doubt gives features, but the individual gives expression. And it is the habitual) expression, mirroring to the world} the inner life and habits of the person, which traces the tell-tale lines on the face. Melancholy, worry, dissipation leave their imprint. But 0 also do buoyancy, unselfishness! and healthy living. Even at 40 these latter gifts have the quality; sot being able, to a very mark degree, to erase from the face the; ravages of the former.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.